Israel’s Foxtrot Is a Searing Study of Grief
Even as Maoz seems to be addressing his themes head on, he’s cleverly setting up the conditions for tragedy, and when it hits, it’s somehow both shocking and inevitable
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The 6 Best Places to Play Pinball (Until Free Play Opens Its Pinball Bar)
Last month, Free Play Arcade announced what pinball fans have been waiting to hear since the day the video game arcade almost died. The local arcade’s fourth franchise location, in Oak Cliff, will be a pinball bar that will cater to the whims of the most hardcore silver ball slingers…
A Garden Behind The MAC’s Warehouse Will Help Artists Create Natural Dyes for Their Work
It was a celebration of all things green as a group of about 25 people gathered at the MAC POP Garden launch in the Cedars neighborhood. A few kids tried out their painting skills in a project using natural dye, and visitors weaved yarn through slats on a large wooden…
Atlanta Is the Only TV Show That’s Honest About Strip Clubs
Making it rain has long been mainstream, but the FX show presents a more novel sight: average Atlanta residents, reckoning with what often gets treated as a national rite of passage
Netflix’s Roxanne Roxanne Honors Forgotten Hip-Hop Great
The film chronicles Roxanne’s teenage years — her brief time in the limelight — when she became one of the greatest in the game
Yes, This Is a Review of Pacific Rim Uprising
“The robots were the good guys, because humans drove them. So maybe they weren’t technically robots. Well, some of them were.”
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The Death of Stalin May Make You Choke With Laughter
It’s fun stuff, but in a deeply corrosive way — daring to suggest that people engaged in a soul-sickening endeavor will find, well, their souls sickened
Free Play Will Pit Top Street Fighter Players Against Each Other in Super Turbo Tournament
Street Fighter II has been around for more than 40 years, but it hasn’t lost its competitive edge. Just about every title in Capcom’s video game fighter franchise is still studied by competitive players and used in some high-priced gaming tournaments. One of the most revered Street Fighter II games in…
Jazz Singer Denzal Sinclaire Treats Dallas Symphony Orchestra to Nat King Cole Songbook
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Jeff Tyzik, treated audiences this weekend to The Nat King Cole Songbook. Fans of the popular jazz crooner, who died in 1965, were not disappointed. During the program’s first half, Denzal Sinclair sang many popular Cole tunes. His silky vocals echoed the romantic,…
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Cheap and Free Things to Do in Dallas This Week
Tuesday At Three Links, CoLab has a daunting weekly task: perform an improvisational hip-hop show. The Dallas collective combines funk, soul, R&B and hip-hop to create an unexpected fusion sound with its talented arsenal of musicians. But above all else, it prides itself on the “ass-shakin’” effects of its music,…
ABC Studios Is in Dallas This Month Shooting a TV Pilot Starring Vanessa Williams
Hollywood is smack dab in the middle of another busy pilot season, and one production vying for a full season on a major network is being filmed here in Dallas. ABC Studios officials confirmed that film crews are scheduled to shoot a pilot for a new dramatic television show titled…
Five Places to Get Your Spray Tan in Dallas
The days of baking in a tanning bed are a distant memory for most of us. And now spots and splats of skin discoloration stretch across our faces. Why didn’t we listen when we were teens who just wanted to bake to a crisp? These days, the spray tan scene…
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Rise Just Doesn’t: NBC’s Musical Theater High School Drama is Friday Night Lite
… Everything about the series, from plotting to character development to tone, feels contrived, with every speck of subtext hauled up and nailed down to the show’s slick surface
A Lara Croft This Good Deserves a Higher Class of Tomb to Raid
Uthaug’s film, like the recent reboot of the video-game series, gives us a grittier Lara Croft, one stripped of the advantages of her wealth and all bruised up from the rigors of her adventure
Arlington Wants to Build the Largest Esports Stadium in the U.S.
Arlington already has the largest local monopoly on professional sports with Globe Life Park, AT&T Stadium and the University of Texas at Arlington’s Maverick Stadium. Now it wants to gain an even greater foothold by making one of the biggest public investments in competitive gaming. Arlington officials this week announced they…
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Four Hardcore Fans Run the Crazy Convention Known as All-Con
The fan convention known as All-Con, which will host its 14th annual gathering this weekend at the Renaissance Dallas Addison (formerly the Hotel InterContinental), is a rarity in the modern age of massive, corporately controlled conventions like Comic-Con and Fan Expo. All-Con remains nonprofit and local and attracts bigger crowds each…
Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Friday The name Nat King Cole brings to mind smoky jazz standards and vintage Christmas memories, but the artist is so much more. Beyond his enormous cultural reach, Cole’s songbook is immense and includes more than 100 hits, many of which were firmly in the pop realm, not jazz. The…
True Blue: Bluebonnet Tours Return at George W. Bush Presidential Center
A Texas spring wouldn’t be complete without rolling patches of bluebonnets. The state flower has flanked our highways and filled fields every spring but received even more acclaim after the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson helped to pass the act, but the best place to spot…
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The Strangers: Prey at Night Leaps From Grim to Goofy to Save the Day
The Strangers: Prey at Night … has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly
Hop in a Car or on a Plane Now — You Deserve an Adult Spring Break
It’s time for spring break. And although we may not reap the benefits of recess, milk breaks and an official spring break as adults, let’s make it official. Spring is almost in full swing, so it’s time to dust off the suitcase and venture away, even if it’s for 48…
Figment Still Needs Your Money to Bring an Interactive Art Festival to Dallas in the Fall
Figment Dallas is becoming more of a reality by the day. Nearly 350 people showed up to the first fundraising effort in January and helped the egalitarian interactive art festival get close to the goal needed to fund the Oct. 20 event. Now Suza Kanon, Figment Dallas’ producer and figurehead, has…
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The Betrayal of Dana Scully: The X-Files Has Been Terrible to Its Lead for a Generation
… it’s worth reconsidering The X-Files’ feminism today, especially when so much of the series’ fan goodwill is based on the quietly political leaps it made in the last century